David Cunillera-Montcusí
MSCA fellow at the HUN-REN CER Institute of aquatic ecology with the #MetaHeroes project. Metacommunity ecology, global disturbances, spatial networks & connectivity. More at www.dcm.cat
- Reposted by David Cunillera-MontcusíA new, different ⭐ was born!🤩 Today we started #STARDRY, an interdisciplinary project to study how #drying controls #functioning #stability in river networks through spatio-temporal changes of #communities🪲🦠 Thanks to my #EcologistDreamTeam for an amazing kickoff meeting🔝 Stay tuned!
- 📢 Exciting NEWS We just published a new work amazingly leaded by Damiano Baldan at @ogsit.bsky.social where we combined niche and neutral models to understand the future rearrangement of #Mediterranean #Seagrasses and their associated diversity consequences 🐚 Take look here 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
- Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí📢 First step of the PhD! 📄 Waterscape dataset of the municipality of Girona 🔍 With @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social, #LMartín, #DBoix and @jordi-bou.bsky.social 💧 A work of @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.di...
- Amazing output for those #UrbanPond and #Pond lovers! Specially for the rising interest of #GardenPonds! Interesting insight can come out of them for moving towards "bluer" cities 🤞🏽 Take a look at it 👇🏽👇🏽, it is freshly baked!
- In our new review in WIREs WATER, we synthesize knowledge on ecosystem (dis)services, multifunctionality, and trade‐offs in urban ponds and highlight garden ponds as a specific subtype that deserves more attention 🏙️🔵🏡 doi.org/10.1002/wat2... @epcn.bsky.social
- Amazing work by @anna-equisuany.bsky.social who successfully lead her first first-authored work, which started a while ago during my thesis and those beautiful #PleteraDays ! Seems that for coastal ponds restoration, age is not the only relevant thing, even along time ⏳ Take a deeper look at it 👇🏽👇🏽
- Thrilled to share our new article published in Hydrobiologia!🎉 We found that hydrological connectivity, rather than pond age, was the key driver of community assembly in coastal ponds. Many thanks to the co-authors🙌🏻 📃: doi.org/10.1007/s107... @iea-udg.bsky.social @greco-udg.bsky.social
- Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí📢 #GiroNat is out in @journalofmaps.bsky.social 📃 Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢Amazing August news 📢 Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1111/geb....
- With this work we finished a journey with @matias-arim.bsky.social #AnaBorthagaray and #JordiBou that is just the beginning of many new adventures! 🤟🏽 Hoping to consolidating things soon to properly explore these exciting avenues! 🤞🏽🙌🏽
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- Some weeks ago we published a work leaded by #Dorottya & @csabaiz.bsky.social in #FWB where we looked at the relevance of spatiotemporal connectivity across different intermittent streams 😄 A nice output from our exchanges in #Pécs around #DRYvER project @tdatry.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
- Last week we had the pleasure to welcome @matias-arim.bsky.social #DamianoBaldan and #ZacharyHajian-Forooshani in #Budapest as part of the #MetaHeroes #EndGame workshop! Many nourishing discussions but the best was the burst in energy that it generated! The #EndGame definitely became a #Beginning
- Together with our guests, all the #MetaHeroes team worked around an amazing dataset on long-term #Fragmentation and the associated #Decay in aquatic diversity! #MSCAProject #HUN-REN #ÖK-VÖI @bartabarbara.bsky.social @schneiderbea.bsky.social @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social
- Reposted by David Cunillera-MontcusíOur PhD student, Anna Equisuany, is back in the lab after successfully presenting #SFS2025 results showing that different types of fragmentation impact biodiversity — both taxonomically and functionally. Yes, fragmentation type does matter!!! #funMETANET
- Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí@jordi-bou.bsky.social is presenting how the metacommunity perspective can be aplied on renaturing urban freshwater ecosystems #GiroNat
- Reposted by David Cunillera-MontcusíPublication #DRYvER out in Global Ecology and Biogeography ! 🌍💧🦟🐚🐌 we show macroinvertebrate communities in drying river networks across Europe shift based on how often—and how long—rivers dry, and how well-connected they are. doi.org/10.1111/geb....
- Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí📢 GLOSSAQUA is out in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social. Big collaboration w/40+ coauthors led by myself, @chaevangelista.bsky.social & @ignasiarranz.bsky.social. It compiles global size spectra parameters from aquatic ecosystems globally👉: doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #datapaper #aquaticecology 🌍🧪🧵(1/4)
- Reposted by David Cunillera-MontcusíJust out in @currentbiology.bsky.social Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community & genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance Rapid adaptation & species sorting combine to alter diversity Read more👇📄https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225000673
- Reposted by David Cunillera-MontcusíWe are excited to invite you to our Final DRYvER #Webinar, 20 March, 14 CET -Agenda below: -Pre-registration required: scan the QR code or use this link: tinyurl.com/5s43cfu9 Don't miss out the opportunity to find out more on how #ClimateChange is altering the eco-hydrology of #DryingRiverNetworks.
- Reposted by David Cunillera-MontcusíNatural river drying is reducing the local biodiversity of aquatic communities and promoting the regional biodiversity by generating multiple successional stage across river networks. Excellent work by Daniel Escobar-Camacho et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by David Cunillera-MontcusíDishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
- Reposted by David Cunillera-MontcusíWhy aren't more researchers publishing in society journals? Two potential reasons: 1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers, and 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.
- Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 In this @globalchangebio.bsky.social study we used 1327 time series of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities across Europe to investigate whether dispersal capacity changes with the ecological quality of rivers. @sgn.one onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
- Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí📢 "We must take this news seriously." The IUCN co-authored Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment brought experts together from across the world of freshwater conservation, including many regular SHOAL collaborators! Keep scrolling to hear what they had to say about this watershed report 👇
- Reposted by David Cunillera-MontcusíLoss of connectivity in pond networks can have a significant impact on microbial #biodiversity. A recent study shows that fragmentation disrupts vital #ecosystems, threatening microbial communities and their interdependent relationships. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #HabitatFragmentation
- Reposted by David Cunillera-MontcusíWith @schneiderbea.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social and others, we showed how connectivity loss affects metacommunities with results from a 4-month long mesocosm experiment just published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! shorturl.at/9o9ak
- To start, let me introduce the #MetaHeroes WP1 and our preliminary results from last spring experiment! There, we aimed to understand the interaction between network position and freshwater salinization using mesocosms #Hungary #ApajBombCraters youtu.be/rasZbMvhJoE?...
- By "we" I mean all the assembled "Meta heroes" ! @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social @bartabarbara.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social among others! ✌🏽😊
- I think it is time to officially say that I am sticking with 🦋! I have been able to find 1000 times more interesting things in 1 week than in the last months in X... Where I was spammed with Asda about "How to become a muscled tiger in 1 week" (don't ask me why)... 😅
- Reposted by David Cunillera-MontcusíDATA CALL - DEADLINE APPROACHING We want to add new sites to our European longtime series database of freshwater biodiversity (see doi.org/10.1038/s415...) To contribute check the link with all the details of the data call www.senckenberg.de/en/call-for-... Thank you very much! #freshwaterecology
